if a Tech reviewer can have these problems, what does "average PC Joe" experience ? I'm just asking.

A tech reviewer should be at least somewhat savvy with what they are reviewing, and not simply come to conclusions. You can't help idiocy, there are people that have trouble navigating the menus on microwave ovens too, and how many VCRs went years on end blinking 12:00? Those folks can't run Mac OS X either.

I'm not sure my situation is rare either. After all, Giz posted a few days ago he's used Vista ever since starting his new job and "hasn't had any problems with it". I believe there have been others here that have posted the same thing.

People badmouth windows simply because it's windows, the same way people badmouth OS X or other Apple products. Perhaps it's fairer on Windows side since until XP, windows was a huge steaming pile of crap. The original OS X was a big steaming pile too, but I defended it.

The problem is people were told long ago "Oh, do a fresh install, that fixes it!" No, it doesn't. Reinstalling your OS is always the *absolute last resort*. I've known people that have forgotten their password to their email and ended up reinstalling their OS!

if a Tech reviewer can have these problems, what does "average PC Joe" experience ? I'm just asking.

A tech reviewer should be at least somewhat savvy with what they are reviewing, and not simply come to conclusions. You can't help idiocy, there are people that have trouble navigating the menus on microwave ovens too, and how many VCRs went years on end blinking 12:00? Those folks can't run Mac OS X either.

well we know some supposed "Tech Reviewers" are idiots too !

I don't know this guy, so I can't say.

I'll admit the Windows "reinstall" may be the lazy way out, but Windows hasn't been very user friendly in the past and maybe in many cases it was the best option.

I've never had to reinstall a Mac OS from OS 7.0 through SL, yet I hear on a regular basis, "I have to reinstall Windows this weekend." from Windows users. Seems that is the only repair method they know.

This is a true story - one of my wife's friend's PC had the sound stop working. We were going to her place anyway for a party over the weekend so I told her I'd fix it when we got there.

Well, she had her neighbor come look at it. Her neighbor who is a proud MCSE. She told me he couldn't fix the problem, and he told her that he'd have to reinstall everything, and would do it in a few days. I said, well let me look at it anyway.

Checked the sound card, sure enough driver conflict. No problem. Uninstall sound card, download new driver, install driver and presto. Sound card reports A-Okay, but still no sound. Hrmmm... Well then I checked the wires and the wire from the comp to the speakers had been chewed... turned out the problem wasn't windows but the dog!

I should have let the guy waste his time reinstalling the OS 10 times, but I settled for making her call him an idiot instead.

"Which brings me to my main point: Windows 7 is a killer version -- but not for the reasons you think. It's not because it fixes Vista's many faults -- it doesn't. Rather, it glosses them over with fresh paint and behavioral tricks.

It's also not because of the new UI. Although I'm a huge fan of the new task-bar-driven interface, much of the underlying concept is merely a rip-off of the Mac's aging dock metaphor. And it's not because Windows 7 is somehow lighter than Vista -- testing shows it takes up about the same amount of RAM when executing an identical workload."

i installed Windows 7 over my Windows XP in Boot Camp the other day (so, in essence it was a clean install). it was a very fast process and i think it was about the same as the Snow Leopard installation. i'd guess 30 - 40 minutes for both or thereabouts.

i actually like Windows 7. not as much as Snow Leopard, but i have no qualms about rebooting into Windows 7 to do my statistical work. Windows 7 is better that some previous versions of OS X, imho.

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